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Big difference there....sure hope the insides are much better for ya too. Those staples just look very uncomfortable, but probably not. Glad it is going well....except for the assistance with the vacuum....

Hope the healing goes well and you find improvement over how it was.

Yeah that just doesn't look comfortable.

Glad the surgery went well, hope you have the recovery that you need and want.

It's an improvement in that I don't have searing nerve pain all the way to my fingers all day and night, that part is gone. Last night was the first night I went without painkillers and I didn't sleep very well at all, it's very tender and achy.
The nerve had slipped out of place from the original surgery due to scar tissue and was rubbing on the bone, that's why it was constantly irritated and bothering me, I'll find out more at my follow up because that's the second hand explanation from my husband. I was too out of it to to remember anything from that whole day and a couple of days after. I didn't come out of the anesthesia for crap, I was dry heaving when I woke up and still really out of it when I went home.
The bruising spread out quite a bit and isn't as dark, just in a larger area. I'm still really tired and don't have any energy at all.

Glad there is at least noticeable improvement, sorry you are still feeling poorly over all. DD2 doesn't come out of anesthesia well either. They have to give her lots of antinausea drugs.

Hope you're getting a chance to actually rest and recuperate. I know you're normally a ball of fire doing one thing after another, non stop. Sorry the surgery was a bad experience, but then I guess there aren't many folks who consider surgery a fun vacation... Glad to hear you're feeling a little better.

Bruce said:

Glad there is at least noticeable improvement, sorry you are still feeling poorly over all. DD2 doesn't come out of anesthesia well either. They have to give her lots of antinausea drugs.

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Yeah, I had zofran to go home with, and a sticky thing behind my ear that ultimately ended up tangled in my hair.

My staples are out. I still have some swelling but it's going down and isn't from armpit to wrist now. I got a pic the day they took them out and it is pretty puffy, normally I don't have a "fat roll" at my armpit lol.
Surgeon said that it was trapped slightly above the elbow with scar tissue that had changed where it was supposed to sit after surgery #1, and that he did the best he could with removing it. I have numbness in the elbow and down the arm, but I do not have searing nerve pain at all. I may or may not get the feeling back in my fingers, but I think it looks good for that. I'm using a squeeze ball to strengthen my hand and I can feel the muscles getting tired from doing it in that part of my hand, so that is encouraging!

That said, I'm back to "normal" but taking it a little easy. We put new collars on the goats yesterday since for whatever reason I keep finding them destroyed in their dry lot. This brings us to a funny experience.
My oldest son is helping me with measuring necks so I can put the right collars on that we made. I grab up Betty, one of my Nubian does, and I straddle her shoulders. My goats aren't wild, but they aren't in your pocket either. Betty decided to take off, with me straddling her, let's add in the visual that to straddle her, I'm standing on my tip toes. Since I'm in this awkward position, when she takes off, it takes me off my feet. She started bucking and running across the pen - no collar, no grip for me other than a small sewing tape measure. I ended up riding my Nubian across the pen while she bucked and ran. My oldest boy got quite a kick out of that, and I didn't fall off her. Oddly enough it was really fun, and funny.
Afterward, to catch the others that would much rather I not catch them, I ended up roping them. Athena is buck wild until you catch her, and apparently, even with an arm that looks like that, I can still rope and only missed twice out of catching 3, one wasn't even a real miss, just made too big of a loop and she hopped through it, caught around her legs and kicked it off.

Critter update:
Pigs are doing well and really packing on weight nicely. We may or may not have piglets in the future, hard to tell but the male isn't cut and she should be old enough to have come in heat.
Buttercup and Dahlia are due between Dec 24 and Jan 8th as best I can tell. Dahlia has some discharge, but she's a FF.
We had a litter of bunnies born on Dec 7th? or so - not sure exact date without looking it up, there are 7 and they are starting to get out of the nest box. We had another litter of 6 born yesterday morning, but 1 didn't make it.
I also had 3 chicks born a week or so ago...again, not sure on the date without looking that up either. I'm bad with dates with this many critters, but I do write it down so I have a reference point. One of the chicks is all black, which I'm not entirely sure how that happened considering I know the mother is my all white EE, and the father could be only 1 of two choices, a Black Copper Maran, and Foghorn the white leghorn. The other two chicks came out white. *shrug*
Horses are all shaggy with winter coats and absolutely obese. I haven't ridden due to the arm surgery and not sure it can hold me to pull myself up, and definitely don't want to get dumped on it.
One of the ducklings wasn't thriving and passed, it seemed fine that night and woke up and it had passed. It was smaller than the others, not sure what happened there. The rest are getting big though!

So, we are on kidding watch starting next week, I'm putting in new stalls in the barn today - slowly I might add, since while my arm is "ok" it does tell me when I'm doing too much.

Glad your arm is improving and hope you get the feeling back in your hand. You are wise to be careful with it.

Do your kids realize what a great Mom you are? You will tackle anything and you don't back down. You have an over the top attitude and you get things done. You give your children a wonderful example to follow. What a fantastic gift you are to your family.

The bruising.....
I'm convinced, that during surgery, they handle ya like you were a big sack of potatoes, bending & contorting you this way and that, and grabbing & pulling on skin and muscle no less severely than they did the cadavers they trained on in med school...